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RSVP for April 18th

Culture Night Series • Open Kitchen Hour

Oceania Night

See Oceania Food Ideas 🍲

Choose a region, then choose what kind of thing you want to bring. Each region opens to category links with more options to explore.

Theme inspired, not theme perfect. Bring a dish, bring something small, join the cook together, or come as you are.

How to use this page

Region first • category second

Open a region below, then click the kind of thing you want to bring: full meal, snack, side, dessert, drink, fruit, bread, or store-bought. Not bringing something? Scroll to Mosaic Cook Together.

Snack Side Dessert Drink Fruit Bread Store-bought

Why this is here

A landing place for food participation

This section helps guests join the food part of the night without overthinking it.

Keep it doable

Small counts too

A drink, fruit tray, bread, or store-bought item still counts as participating.

Small mosaic

A starting point, not full representation

Oceania includes many places, cuisines, and traditions. These links are here to help people start somewhere.

Australia + New Zealand

Picnic-friendly, baked, familiar shareables, sweets, casual drinks

Start with: Australia • New Zealand

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Pick the kind of contribution you want to make.

Melanesia

Hearty, earthy, coconut-forward, root vegetables, grilled foods

Start with: Fiji • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu

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A strong lane for warm dishes, coconut, cassava, tropical fruit, and comforting sides.

Micronesia

Simple, bright, island-style, lighter shareables, rice, fruit, easy sides

Start with: Guam • Palau • Marshall Islands • Federated States of Micronesia

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This one leans on broader Pacific pages, which is still better than a vague search results page.

Polynesia

Tropical, coconut-forward, bright, festive, sweet-savory, shareable

Start with: Samoa • Tonga • Tahiti / French Polynesia • Cook Islands • Hawaiʻi

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Great for drinks, fruit, sweet breads, desserts, and colorful shareables.

If you bring something

Please label: dish name • region or country inspiration • key ingredients or allergens. Theme inspired is great. It does not need to be perfect.

Not bringing a dish? Here’s the meal we’ll build together in Kitchen Hour.

Mosaic Cook Together

What we’re cooking together

This is the featured shared meal for the night. One cohesive Oceania-inspired plate built for 15 people, easy serving, and a warm start before games.

Base

Coconut Rice

Warm, mild, easy base

Serve tool: scoop

Main

Coconut Braised Beef

Rich, savory, spoonable

Serve tool: spoon or tongs

Veg

Lime Cabbage Slaw

Crunchy, bright, cooling

Serve tool: tongs

Finish

Ginger Coconut Drizzle

Adds lift and shine

Serve tool: spoon

Drink

Pineapple Lime Cooler

Bright, cold, batch-friendly

Ice on the side

Kitchen Hour flow

4:00 to 4:10 check in and pick stations • 4:10 to 4:45 cook window • 4:45 to 5:00 plate, label, handoff

Bring something from a region, cook with us, or simply show up hungry.

The goal is shared participation, not perfection.

Saturday • 4 to 7 PM • Open Kitchen Hour is 4:00 to 5:00